1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

WM postdocs! Just a reminder to please submit your application for WMS organizer before March 29th if you care about fostering an empowering community of WM researchers!

Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Super excited to share that our paper, “Multiple Partially Overlapping Neural Modules Orchestrate Conflict Processing,” has been accepted for publication in Imaging Neuroscience! 🎉 1/n w/ @tgro.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social Edmund Wascher, Patrick Gajewski direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

Only 5 days left!!!

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

The effect of sequence stability on serial dependence jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Just a few more days left to apply! Come join our lab!🥳

New paper out in JEP:General, led by uber-productive grad student Ricardo Morales Torres (@rmt93.bsky.social): We use behavior and RNNs to show that object semantics protect visual WM against visual interference but increase susceptibility to semantic interference. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

New paper out in Psych Review: "Cognitive Constraints and Reward Environments Jointly Shape Memory Formation." We show that people strategically decide how to use their limited memory resources based on the expected reward of future events that might also need those resources doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

Explore your thoughts and contribute to the science of cognition! 🧠 ✨ Learn more about how you think by taking part in these experiments designed by our team of psychologists and neuroscientists. 🙏 innerexperiencelab.com

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

The Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee is looking to fill three vacancies on the committee this year. Applications are due by April 1. Learn more and express your interest here: buff.ly/0rZ3Udb

The Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee is looking to fill three vacancies on the committee this year. Applications are due by April 1. Learn more and express your interest: buff.ly/0rZ3Udb

Traditional polite reminder: If you don't want to review, please click on the decline link (those 'un-invited' are when the potential reviewer does not reply anything within a week).

Recently, van der Stigchel and colleagues posted a provocative commentary suggesting that we should be wary of bots in online behavioral data collection (🧵by @cstrauch.bsky.social here: bsky.app/profile/cstr...). But should we? Here is my response letter osf.io/preprints/ps.... 1/5

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

"The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All" This is really important for those of us doing online research with what we hope are humans journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve been having a great time at @cogneuronews.bsky.social !! If you’ll be around for the final day of the meeting, come say hi during the last poster session (8-10am, Poster F34)! I’ll be sharing some new work on how dynamic memory control helps regulate intrusive thoughts!

I am glad to attend #CNS2026 in beautiful Vancouver🇨🇦! I will present my work on action planning in visual working memory. In this project, we focus on the factors leading motor planning such as selective attention, affordances and task requirements. Meet me at the Poster Session B (B38)!

💡New Preprint 💡 Can you trust effect size estimates from your Bayesian sequential design / optional stopping sampling plan? Yes, you can! In this simulation study, I show that effect size estimates from samples obtained via optional stopping with Bayes Factors are unbiased osf.io/preprints/ps...

I am happy to be attending #CNS2026 with the Yale Wu Tsai Institute travel award to present this paper👇🏻 as a poster - it’ll be on Monday from 2:30-4:30pm (session E), come check it out!

Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC! Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life? ✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

- The third article suggests that aphantasia could offer advantages for reasoning, potentially linked to a more 'abstract' cognitive style. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

- The second article reveals spatial and verbal cognitive profiles in aphantasia using unsupervised clustering. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In recent months, our team has published three articles on aphantasia ✨: - The first article puts forward an implicit priming paradigm for the objective assessment of aphantasia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join our lab in Geneva, as a postdoc working on #workingmemory, with both Jarrod Lewis-Peacock and myself !

Dr. Vergauwe and Dr. Lewis Peacock are an great mentors and scientists. I highly recommend Postdocing with them in Dr. Vergauwe's lab. A great opportunity!

If you are a visual #workingmemory researcher that has a dataset from a delayed recall task with continuous report (the ones using a circular response wheel) and want to share it, please drop a reply. Would love a link to both paper and dataset! See: williamngiam.github.io/OpenWMData

Academic Councillor (100% tenured civil service position), Cognitive Psychology Unit of University of Trier, Trier, Germany The application deadline is the 30th of March 2026.

Claude Opus 4.6 is a surprisingly huge jump for a .1 upgrade. I've been astonished by how independently it can work and in the past month it has substantially helped me in projects in a way that I would absolutely think deserves co-authorship if it were a human collaborator.

Excited to share this work! The consistent lack of cue-driven proactive control challenges assumptions about our ability to readily deploy top-down control. We rule out S-R mappings, task pace and task difficulty as explanations, while showing that implicit, experience-driven control remains intact.

Come and join OPAM as an organizer for 2026/7!!🎉 We are still looking for two new early career researchers (phd/postdoc) to join the OPAM team to help run everyones favorite one day miniconference! Express your interest by this weekend!

It’s out!

Honored to receive a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and to join Prof. Kia Nobre at Yale University. Excited to continue my work on the role of working memory in event segmentation. Grateful for this opportunity! www.brognition.yale.edu/%f0%9f%8c%8d...

We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Delighted to share that this year's Working Memory Discussion Meeting, held at the beautiful Parcevall Hall in North Yorkshire on 1st-3rd July, is now open for bookings. Hurry, because places are filling up fast! I will be co-hosting again this year with Alicia Forsberg and @richjallen.bsky.social 🙌

New preprint! We mapped out how ‘diffuse’ predictions affect neural representations. We show predictions reshape the geometric layout of the neural representations by compressing the representational spread and stabilize the neural code by reducing the neural variance during memory encoding.

We are excited to announce that we will host WMS2026! The tentative dates are July 14th-17th, and we are currently looking for a postdoc to join the WMS2026 organizer team. If you are interested, please submit your application using the link below (Deadline: March 29th) forms.gle/noqsuEja2tB8...

Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory? Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.

If you are teaching any kind of statistics, probability or modeling classes, you'll love this website. Contains dozens of interactive simulations of random processes, with sliders, different visualizat options, and full numeric log ouput: www.randomservices.org/random/apps/...

Bookings for the 2026 Working Memory Discussion Meeting at Parcevall Hall are now open! 1st-3rd July, 2026. All information here -> sites.google.com/site/working...

Check out our new preprint, which presents object-based retrieval processes in multisensory working memory. Here we show that unimodal feature probes incidentally reactivate untested tones and orientations of audiovisual objects. +

poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension

Briefly not attending something may help you remember it later 🪄: new paper led by phenomenal PhD student Frieda Born (not on Bsky) out now in Comms Psychology: 
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This work👇 is now published in PB&R 🥳🎉 #workingmemory link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🧠 #Psych & #CogNeuro people — #attention! Hiring a Research Associate (WissMA) in #Cologne to study #SelectiveAttention in action-related contexts (e.g., #VisualForaging)! PhD opportunity! Some teaching in German ... karriere.crf-education.com/job/wissensc... Please forward, repost!